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Excitation of Tamm plasmon polariton in ultrathin metals Open

J. M. Zhang, Pengsen Wang, Maobin Xie, Qingquan Liu, Anping Ge , et al. · 2025

Tamm plasmon polariton (TPP) has unique localization and manipulability but cannot be excited with ultrathin metal films. We propose a strategy to realize generalized TPP (GTPP) in an ultrathin metal film as metainterface by introducing a …

Two-dimensional Reconfigurable Photodiode for In-Sensor Color Filtering and Spectral Logic Open

Jianbin Xu, Xiaokun Guo, Yilin Zhou, Yufeng Zhang, Xinyi Zhao , et al. · 2025

Wavelength-selective photodetectors are essential for applications such as hyperspectral imaging, biomedical diagnostics, and secure optical communication. Conventional photodetection systems typically rely on external filters or post-proc…

Optical Fiber Sensor with Dynamically Responsive Cladding for Real-Time Breath Pattern Monitoring Open

Pillalamarri Srikrishnarka, Jani Patrakka, Zhipei Sun, Nonappa Nonappa · 2025

Rapid and real-time monitoring of humidity changes is critical, as they impact human health, material storage, and stability, industrial fabrication, microbial transmission, and agriculture. In recent years, optical fiber-based sensors hav…

Reconstructive spectrometers: hardware miniaturization and computational reconstruction Open

Yiru Zhang, En-Bo Yang, Hoon Hahn Yoon, Qixiang Cheng, Zhipei Sun , et al. · 2025

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials Open

F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens, Lorenzo Orsini, Matteo Ceccanti , et al. · 2025

Triggered by advances in atomic-layer exfoliation and growth techniques, along with the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or a few atomic layers, two-dimensional (2…

On-chip graphene photodetectors with a nonvolatile p–i–n homojunction Open

Ruijuan Tian, Yong Zhang, Yingke Ji, Chen Li, Xianghu Wu , et al. · 2025

Sub-100-fs deep-red mode-locked fiber laser for multicolor two-photon microscopy Open

Jinhai Zou, Hongsen He, Luming Song, Lu Huang, Jingbin Lan , et al. · 2025

Direct tensor processing with coherent light Open

Y. Zhang, Xiaobing Liu, Chenguang Yang, Jinlong Xiang, Hao Yan , et al. · 2025

Tensor processing is the cornerstone of modern technological advancements, powering critical applications in data analytics and artificial intelligence. While optical computing offers exceptional advantages in bandwidth, parallelism, and e…

On-demand tailoring soliton patterns through intracavity spectral phase programming Open

Heze Zhang, Chao Zeng, Yueqing Du, Guanghua Cheng, Biqiang Jiang , et al. · 2025

Molecular-captured hot-electron detection in single-atom alloy antennas Open

Lijun Yang, Yuanming Zhang, Zhaojian Zeng, Yong Chen, Zhonghua Li , et al. · 2025

Hot electrons are ubiquitous in diverse physical and chemical processes, since they are involved in the energy transfer of elementary processes such as adsorption, diffusion and desorption of reactants. However, hot electrons have short li…

High-performance, self-powered photodetectors based on vertically stacked van der Waals heterostructures toward bifacial photovoltaics Open

Er‐Xiong Ding, Anastasios Karakassides, Yaoqiang Zhou, Ruihuan Fang, Fida Ali , et al. · 2025

Global mining is diminishing the effectiveness of Protected Areas in forest conservation Open

Tingting He, He Ren, Yihua Hu, Yanling Zhao, Youpeng Lu , et al. · 2025

Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental cornerstone for global forest conservation, yet human activities have increasingly threatened them in recent years. While mining, a highly destructive but profitable economic activity, is often conside…

2025 photonics for agrifood roadmap: towards a sustainable and healthier planet Open

Lien Smeesters, Francesca Venturini, Stefan Paulus, Anne‐Katrin Mahlein, David Perpetuini , et al. · 2025

Photonics technologies play a crucial role in driving technological advancements within the agrifood industry, aiming to deliver a sustainable food and agriculture, and offering healthy, nutritious and safe food for all of us. Particularly…

Reconfigurable and Nonvolatile Graphene Photodetector Integrated onto Photonic Crystal Waveguide Open

Ruijuan Tian, Liang Yu, Zhipei Sun, Xuetao Gan · 2025

Optical Modification of TMD Heterostructures Open

Suvi‐Tuuli Akkanen, Christopher G. Edwards, Yaoqiang Zhou, Ruihuan Fang, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Shokouh , et al. · 2025

Optical modification is a fast, cost-effective, and scalable approach to tailoring the physical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials for various applications. However, most previous efforts have focused on modifying individual 2D m…

Origin of Nonlinear Circular Photocurrent in 2D Semiconductor Open

Yanchong Zhao, Fengyu Chen, Jing Liang, M. S. Bahramy, Ming‐Wei Yang , et al. · 2025

Nonlinear photogalvanic effects in two-dimensional materials, particularly the nonlinear circular photocurrents (NCPs) that belong to the helicity-dependent spin photocurrents, have sparked enormous research interest. Although notable prog…

Ultra-fast optical time-domain transformation techniques Open

Yusheng Zhang, Chenning Tao, Luo Si, K. Y. Lau, Jiancheng Zheng , et al. · 2025

Temporal and spatiotemporal soliton molecules in ultrafast fibre lasers Open

Mao Ding, Zichuan Yuan, Ke Dai, Yue Chen, Huihui Ma , et al. · 2025

Ultrafast fibre lasers, characterized by ultrashort pulse duration and broad spectral bandwidth, have drawn significant attention due to their vast potential across a wide range of applications, from fundamental scientific to industrial pr…

Electrical probe of spin-spiral order in quantum spin Hall/spin-spiral magnet van der Waals heterostructures Open

Fedor Nigmatulin, José L. Lado, Zhipei Sun · 2025

Two-dimensional spin-spiral magnets provide promising building blocks for van der Waals heterostructures due to their tunable spin textures and potential for novel functionalities for quantum devices. However, due to its vanishing magnetiz…

Ultrafast Infrared Plasmonics Open

Yang Luo, Zhiyuan Sun, Zhipei Sun, Qing Dai · 2025

Ultrafast plasmonics represents a cutting‐edge frontier in light‐matter interactions, providing a unique platform to study electronic interactions and collective motions across femtosecond to picosecond timescales. In the infrared regime, …

Miniaturized spectral sensing with a tunable optoelectronic interface Open

Xiaoqi Cui, Fedor Nigmatulin, Lei Wang, Igor Reduto, Andreas C. Liapis , et al. · 2025

Reconstructive optoelectronic spectroscopy has generated substantial interest in the miniaturization of traditional spectroscopic tools, such as spectrometers. However, most state-of-the-art demonstrations face fundamental limits of rank d…

Anomalous photovoltaics in Janus MoSSe monolayers Open

Chang Liu, Tianyu Liang, Xin Sui, Lena Du, Quanlin Guo , et al. · 2025

Nanoscale thickness Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum light generation Open

Susobhan Das, Md Gius Uddin, Diao Li, Yadong Wang, Yunyun Dai , et al. · 2025

Coherent broadband light generation has attracted massive attention due to its numerous applications ranging from metrology, sensing, and imaging to communication. In general, spectral broadening is realized via third-order and higher-orde…

Beyond visible: giant bulk photovoltaic effect for broadband neuromodulation Open

Xiangxu Chai, Zhipei Sun · 2025

The giant bulk photovoltaic effect in tellurene nanomaterials has been harnessed to enable broadband infrared neuromodulation, expanding the potential for safe, non-invasive neural stimulation and highlighting the importance of material in…

High-responsivity InSe/TaSe 2 photodetectors integrated on low-loss silicon nitride waveguides Open

Maaz Ahmed Qureshi, Farhan Khalid, Md Gius Uddin, Abde Mayeen Shafi, Isaac Doughan , et al. · 2025

Waveguide-integrated InSe/TaSe 2 heterostructure photodetectors exhibit high responsivity and low noise, enabled by enhanced light-matter interaction.

Ultrafast Floquet engineering of Fermi-polaron resonances in charge-tunable monolayer WSe2 devices Open

Hyojin Choi, J.S. Kim, Ji‐Won Park, Jekwan Lee, Wonhyeok Heo , et al. · 2024

Metasurface spectrometers beyond resolution-sensitivity constraints Open

Feng Tang, Jingjun Wu, Tom Albrow‐Owen, Hanxiao Cui, Fujia Chen , et al. · 2024

Conventional spectrometer designs necessitate a compromise between their resolution and sensitivity, especially as device and detector dimensions are scaled down. Here, we report on a miniaturizable spectrometer platform where light throug…

Correction: Broadening spectral responses and achieving environmental stability in SnS2/Ag-NPs/HfO2 flexible phototransistors Open

Muhammad Farooq Khan, Sana Sadaqat, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Shania Rehman, Waqas Siddique Subhani , et al. · 2024

Correction for ‘Broadening spectral responses and achieving environmental stability in SnS 2 /Ag-NPs/HfO 2 flexible phototransistors’ by Muhammad Farooq Khan et al. , Nanoscale , 2024, 16 , 3622–3630, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NR04626E.

Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Responses in MoS2 via Femtosecond Laser‐Induced Defect‐Engineering Open

Suvi‐Tuuli Akkanen, Juan Arias Muñoz, Aleksei V. Emelianov, Kamila K. Mentel, Juhani V. Tammela , et al. · 2024

2D materials are a promising platform for applications in many fields as they possess a plethora of useful properties that can be further optimized by careful engineering, for example, by defect introduction. While reliable high‐yield defe…

Moiré-engineered light-matter interactions in MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers at room temperature Open

Qiaoling Lin, Hanlin Fang, Alexei Kalaboukhov, Yuanda Liu, Yi Zhang , et al. · 2024

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